If it be a stiff clay, it may be well to throw the soil up into ridges (by ridging and back furrowing), so as to expose the largest possible amount of surface to the freezing and thawing of winter.
The offices of the hollow straws may be performed by a system of ridging and back furrowing, having previously covered the soil with leaves, or other refuse organic material.
The grower of green asparagus has about the same work, less the ridging and plowing down.
In some sections, however, where the land is flat and full of water, ridging seems necessary if the land cannot be drained.
In ridging out the plants, one thing must be attended to in the preparation of the bed, which has not been before mentioned.
In covering up the early plants, at the first ridging out, a single or double mat will be sufficient; after that add a little hay, and increase it if the weather is cold.
In this ridging for neck defence occurred the first idea of passe-gardes or pike-guards, an innovation which in different forms was in vogue during the latter part of the fifteenth and nearly the whole of the sixteenth centuries.
The breastplate has a slight ridgingdown the centre, the precursor of the tapul or prominent projection so characteristic of the breastplates immediately following.
Mr. Smith pertinently says: "Horse-power could not give at any cost such valuable work as this steam-power ridging and subsoiling is.
The Ridging Box, or Baitana, is used for raising low ridges on the flat to retain the water for irrigation purposes.
Footnote 86: The practice of ridging land seeded to grain was necessary before the invention of the modern drill.
The general care of the bed during the third year is similar to that of the second, with the exception that the soil is worked more toward the rows, ridgingthem slightly.
The latter plowings are toward the rows, the effort being by ridging to give a long blanched surface to the shoots.
In fields where the close, deep furrowing and ridging was being done the team often consisted of a heavy ox and two small donkeys driven abreast, the three walking in adjacent rows, the plow following the ox, or a heavy mule instead.
Ridging the land tends to lessen the amount of moisture in the soil because it increases the evaporating surface.
The settlement and crumpling of the crust were not continuous, but took place at intervals; and each such settlement produced not only a ridging up along certain lines, but also an emergence of the plains or plateaus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
